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...Thucydides long ago concluded that people go to war out of "honor, fear and interest." Putin seems to have chosen conflict largely out of honor, or, put another way, out of perceived humiliation - one of the most prevalent, least explored factors behind global violence...
Evidence-based research means, more or less, that someone has done statistical analyses on subjectively chosen "outcome parameters." There are some cases where the outcome, or endpoint, of a trial is pretty definitive and measurable - like, say, death. Other times, the outcome parameters can be as nebulous as "satisfaction" or "discomfort" - but in these cases, when numbers are assigned to subjective experience (e.g., "my discomfort level is now three out of 10") and plugged into an algebraic formula, they produce "rational" or "evidence-based" conclusions, which suddenly have the ring of scientific truth. As far as the evidence-based movement...
...hundred patients I've told about that paper over the past five months, not one has chosen to undergo surgery. Real patients are scared of being cut open, of getting infections, not waking up, becoming paralyzed. They're scared of the pain. And they don't care about statistics. The smarter ones understand how complicated a decision it is to have an operation. What smart patients want is something beyond statistics - most call it judgment - as they decide between the pain they're living with now versus the risks of a procedure that can't guarantee a cure...
...government establishments, led by 70 year old Wu Yi, China's "Iron Lady", were a bit younger, but not by much. They may run the country's huge state owned companies and the government that minds them, but in a China dominated by the Communist Party, leadership is chosen, and replaced, by generation. The diners at the Jianfu Palace were smart, and like Madame Wu, as tough as can be, but they are conservative, and they do things by the book. Dinner was served by scores of waitresses clad in qipao. The guests listened to traditional Chinese music, and they...
...fake. Fake in the sense that producers and participants acknowledge reshooting scenes and doing multiple takes. Fake in the sense that MTV's beautiful "stars" are famous for little more than being on The Hills. And fake in that it's proof that a beautiful shot and a well-chosen sound track can imitate emotion in even the most banal scene...